An History of the Earth And Animated Nature volume 4
An History of the Earth And Animated Nature volume 4
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
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Thefe oval open- ings may be confidered as fo many mouths, through which the infect breathes ; but with this difference, that as we have but one pair of lungs, the caterpillar has no lefs than eighteen. It requires no great anatomical dexterity to difcover thefe lungs in the larger kind of caterpillars : they appear, at firft view, to be hollow cartilaginous tubes, and of the colour of mother-of pearl. Thefe tubes are often feen to unite with each other, fome are perceived to open into the inte...ftines | VOL. IV. 2 E AN HISTORY OF and fomc go to different parts of the furface of the body, 'That thefe veflels ferve to convey the air, appears evidently, from the famous experiment of Malpighi j \vho, by flopping up the mouths of the ftigmata with oil, quickly fuffccated the animal, which was feen to die convulfed the inflant after. In order to afcertain his theory, he rubbed oil upon other parts of the infe&'s body, leaving the ftigmata free ; and this feem- ed to have no effect upon the animal's health, but it continued to move and eat as ufual : he rubbed oil on the ftigmata of one fide, and the animal underwent a partial convulfion, but recovered foon after.
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